Good Wine Quotes

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

Good wine needs no bush.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

If you have a beautiful view, you don't need a good wine to feel dizzy.

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

I really enjoy simple things in life. I just like the idea of bringing together a few ingredients and being able to transform it into something delicious and warm that my friends can sit around and enjoy. Most of my socializing is based around good food and good wine.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.